reformatted disk won't install solaris 10 - SUN

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We sliced it using format from boot cdrom -s on sol 10U5
Slice 0 starts at cylinder 0 swap starts about cylinder 10500 and is 4
Gb in size. When we ...

reformatted disk won't install solaris 10

On a V880 we have a root disk c0t0d0

We sliced it using format from boot cdrom -s on sol 10U5

Slice 0 starts at cylinder 0 swap starts about cylinder 10500 and is 4
Gb in size. When we try to install sol10U5 we
consistently get stopped at the end of the prompting and the beginning
of the installation at

Could not reinitialize system state
mkdir "a/var/sadm/laucher" Read only filesystem

Any ideas

Re: reformatted disk won't install solaris 10

On Apr 29, 7:51 am, "leona...@sympatico.ca"
wrote:
> On a V880 we have a root disk c0t0d0
Ill take your word on that c0 bit
> We sliced it using format from boot cdrom -s on sol 10U5
> Slice 0 starts at cylinder 0 swap starts about cylinder 10500 and is 4
> Gb in size. When we try to install sol10U5 we
> consistently get stopped at the end of the prompting and the beginning
> of the installation at
> Could not reinitialize system state
> mkdir "a/var/sadm/laucher" Read only filesystem
> Any ideas
So little to go on
Sounds like you are using a non-Sun disk??
Just label the disk, quit and start the install over again.

Re: reformatted disk won't install solaris 10

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> On a V880 we have a root disk c0t0d0
>
> We sliced it using format from boot cdrom -s on sol 10U5
>
> Slice 0 starts at cylinder 0 swap starts about cylinder 10500 and is 4
> Gb in size. When we try to install sol10U5 we
> consistently get stopped at the end of the prompting and the beginning
> of the installation at
>
>
> Could not reinitialize system state
> mkdir "a/var/sadm/laucher" Read only filesystem
>
>
> Any ideas

Maybe a dumb question, but does slice 0 and 4 overlap in anyway?
Has slice 2 been messed with at all?

Try to load the OS and partition the drive out as part of the installation
process.
Are the disks Sun drives?
Sun's hate non-Sun disks and they hate 3rd party memory even more.

Trinean

Re: reformatted disk won't install solaris 10

On Apr 29, 10:51 am, "leona...@sympatico.ca"
wrote:
> On a V880 we have a root disk c0t0d0
>
> We sliced it using format from boot cdrom -s on sol 10U5
>
> Slice 0 starts at cylinder 0 swap starts about cylinder 10500 and is 4
> Gb in size. When we try to install sol10U5 we
> consistently get stopped at the end of the prompting and the beginning
> of the installation at
>
> Could not reinitialize system state
> mkdir "a/var/sadm/laucher" Read only filesystem
>
> Any ideas

Thanks to all who replied: the solution turned out to be related to
metadbs on other disks which had not been reformatted and relabelled.

After repartitioning disk 0 on controller 1 (c1t0d0), during
installation the error message came up:

Could not reinitialize system state

mkdir "a/var/sadm/laucher" Read only filesystem

The cause turned out to be:
metadata dbs on the attached drives (c1t1d0-c1t5d0) caused a metainit
error which caused the above error
Our solution
Pull the 5 drives out during installation

There are probably other solutions but that worked.

Re: reformatted disk won't install solaris 10

On Apr 30, 6:50 am, "leona...@sympatico.ca"
wrote:
> On Apr 29, 10:51 am, "leona...@sympatico.ca"
> wrote:
>
> > On a V880 we have a root disk c0t0d0
>
> > We sliced it using format from boot cdrom -s on sol 10U5
>
> > Slice 0 starts at cylinder 0 swap starts about cylinder 10500 and is 4
> > Gb in size. When we try to install sol10U5 we
> > consistently get stopped at the end of the prompting and the beginning
> > of the installation at
>
> > Could not reinitialize system state
> > mkdir "a/var/sadm/laucher" Read only filesystem
>
> > Any ideas
>
> Thanks to all who replied: the solution turned out to be related to
> metadbs on other disks which had not been reformatted and relabelled.

You might have mentioned that little factoid. As you found out things
like that matter.
> The cause turned out to be:
> metadata dbs on the attached drives (c1t1d0-c1t5d0) caused a metainit
> error which caused the above error
> Our solution
> Pull the 5 drives out during installation
> There are probably other solutions but that worked.

Just curious but the swap slices on the meta disks - did they start at
cylinder 0?
Ive been burned by this before in upgrades of metadb disks.